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In the latest in a string of attacks directed against foreigners in Indonesia, gunmen have fired at the home of two US academics in the Indonesian province of Aceh, which is on the nothern tip of Sumatra.

A FERRY that sank in Indonesian waters on the weekend killing 29 people was overloaded and its life boats were leaking, a survivor has claimed.

Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to reach scores of people trapped under debris and survivors pleaded for aid after a powerful quake hit the Indonesian city of Padang, possibly killing thousands.

JAKARTA: Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank on Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 29 people have died, officials said.

Gunmen have opened fire on the home of John Penny, a Briton who serves as the EU's envoy in the staunchly Islamic Indonesian province of Aceh.

QUESTION: Secretary Clinton, welcome back to Meet the Press. SECRETARY CLINTON: It's great to talk with you from Singapore, David.

Indonesia should be alerted of fish crisis as the symptom towards it grows, reflected by sharp decrease on fisheries resources due to over exploitation, rampant fish theft and increasing production target without support of resources improvement, Kompas daily quoted experts as saying in Yakata on Saturday.

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Indonesian television says a passenger ferry with more than 200 people onboard sank in rough waters near Sumatra island.

JAKARTA, Indonesia: Officials say they have confiscated 75 tons of an explosive material being shipped from Malaysia to Indonesia and are investigating possible links to terrorism.

JOHOR BAHARU, Nov 21 -- Health tourism is expected to boom in Johor in the near future with the construction of a new government hospital and the proposed wellness centre in Nusajaya.

SINGAPORE : Perak wants to market itself aggressively abroad by promoting attractions dubbed the "10 Icons of Perak" to boost annual tourist arrivals by 500,000 to 3.5 million next year, senior state executive councillor Datuk Hamidah Osman said here.

The Ambassador of Republic of Indonesia, Ishaq Latuconsina, has said that Preferential Trade Agreement between Pakistan and Indonesia will be finalized by the end of this year to harness the trade potentials between the two Islamic countries.

JAKARTA: It is an allegation that has spread like wildfire through Jakarta's elites and is now being openly canvassed in the press.

Ida Farida, 33, never imagined she would lose the job that she had held for 10 years.

When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world. Or at least that's how Chinese audiences are interpreting "2012," Hollywood's latest blockbuster disaster movie.

Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth - a rare type of fish known as 'a living fossil' - in deep water off Indonesia.

Hollywood's latest doomsday offering "2012" has caused a storm in Indonesia, with conservative clerics condemning it Thursday as a "provocation against Islam". Screenings have been sold out across the capital Jakarta following the film's success in North America, where it beat Disney's "A Christmas Carol" to top the box office honours last weekend.

Indonesia would begin constructing the world's would-be longest bridge in Sunda Strait connecting two main islands of Sumatra and Java in 2014, as an effort to boost infrastructure development in the southeast Asian largest economy.

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